passion IB fame; my passion is man!"

This was in our Founder's breast the white flame which ignited like sparks
in the hearts of all his followers.

_Man is our life's passion._

It is for man we have laid our lives upon the altar. It is for man we have
entered into a contract with our God which signs away our claim to any and
all selfish ends. It is for man we have sworn to our own hurt, and--my God
thou knowest-when the hurt came, hard and hot and fast, it was for man we
held tenaciously to the bargain.

After the torpedoing of the _Aboukir_ two sailors found themselves
clinging to a spar which was not sufficiently buoyant to keep them both
afloat. Harry, a Salvationist, grasped the situation and said to his mate:
"Tom, for me to die will mean to go home to mother. I don't think it's
quite the same for you, so you hold to the spar and I will go down; but
promise me if you are picked up you will make my God your God and my
people your people." Tom was rescued and told to a weeping audience in a
Salvation Army hall the act of self-sacrifice which had saved his life,
and testified to keeping his promise to the boy who had died for him.

When the _Empress of Ireland_ went down with a hundred and thirty
Salvation Army officers on board, one hundred and nine officers were
drowned, and not one body that was picked up had on a life-belt. The few
survivors told how the Salvationists, finding there were not enough life-
preservers for all, took off their own belts and strapped them upon even
strong men, saying, "I can die better than you can;" and from the deck of
that sinking boat they flung their battle-cry around the world--